Immortality and cultivation begin with alchemy and accounting.

Bai Xuanjing then cupped his hands and said, "To be honest, Second Uncle, I have already finished refining all the materials for the Yellow Jade Pill, and I was just about to bring the pill to hand in my report!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Jingming was slightly surprised.

To be honest, although he had mentioned the No. 8 Fire Vein to Bai Xuanjing and had also encouraged Bai Xuanjing to cultivate the Azure Water Pill.

But in reality, he didn't have high hopes.

After all, he had seen Bai Xuanjing's previous performance.

In terms of alchemy talent alone, Bai Xuanjing's performance in the Alchemy Hall was not among the best.

In addition, Baek Hyun-kyung also suffered from her age.

Too young, his experience in alchemy naturally couldn't compare to that of other alchemists of the Xuan generation.

"Oh, what's the success rate of pill formation?"

Although Bai Jingming didn't have high hopes, he didn't show it, lest he undermine Bai Xuanjing's confidence.

Bai Xuanjing took out all the Huang Yudan pills from the storage bag.

He refined more than five hundred yellow jade pills in total.

The family mission requires 350 pills.

However, Bai Xuanjing used nearly half of his spiritual items when he was in Jing'an Market, and now he has 434 Yellow Jade Pills left.

The mission was completed with 84 extra pills.

Bai Jingming examined each of the pill bottles one by one, then looked slightly surprised.

"Wow, eighty-four more Yellow Jade Pills than the quota, and it looks like the quality of your pills is better than that of most of the young disciples of the Bai family."

"I gave you materials for a total of 230 portions of Yellow Jade Pills. If we calculate based on three pills per batch, that's a success rate of over 60%!"

"Xuanjing, you've given me a wonderful surprise!"

Bai Xuangu and Lu Jinyan stood to the side, not exactly confused, but also somewhat bewildered.

After all, they were not professional alchemists, so they were not that sensitive to the quantity of pills and materials.

As for the 60% success rate in obtaining pills, it was just a number to them.

It sounds impressive, but they couldn't quite explain why.

"Second Uncle, where does Xuanjing rank among the younger generation in terms of pill success rate?" Bai Xuangu asked tentatively.

Although he doesn't understand alchemy, he understands a lot more when it comes to rankings.

Bai Jingming stroked his beard and chuckled, "As things stand, it should be second!"

"Among the younger generation, there are only a few outstanding alchemists, and the first one is Bai Xuanjin."

His success rate in refining the Yellow Jade Pill is nearly 70%, but he is already thirty years old this year, and the family's limit for his pill refining tasks is a success rate of 60%.

Moreover, he had refined the Yellow Jade Pill for the family in his earlier years, so his performance wasn't surprising.

"Second is Xuanjing, and third is Bai Xuanluo. The number of pills refined by Xuanluo is not much different from that of Xuanjing, only about ten more, but the quality of the pills is a little worse."

"Besides that, there's Bai Xuanhao... and another one named Bai Xuanlin. This guy is wicked and caused a lot of trouble when he was in the alchemy hall."

But he is indeed diligent in alchemy, and I estimate he can achieve a 50% success rate...

After Bai Jingming finished speaking, the expressions on the faces of everyone present became somewhat strange.

Bai Xuanjing ignored Bai Xuanlin and pondered in her heart.

In fact, according to Bai Jingming's calculation, his success rate in achieving the desired result is also 70%.

However, after a wave of sales at Jing'an Fangshi, there weren't many left.

From this perspective, his alchemy skills are now considered top-notch among the younger generation of the Bai family!

The so-called younger generation does not refer only to the generation with the character "玹" in their name, but to cultivators under the age of thirty-five.

A Qi Refining cultivator's normal lifespan is about one hundred years. At thirty-five, he is in his prime.

Moreover, young cultivators are considered the future of the family, and the family provides them with much support and care.

One manifestation of this care is the success rate of pill production.

When families assign alchemy tasks to young alchemists, they generally do not have high requirements for the success rate of alchemy.

However, the requirements gradually increase for older cultivators.

After all, even someone with average talent would be truly useless if they couldn't improve their success rate after decades of refining pills.

This restriction on the success rate of pill refining based on age serves two purposes: firstly, it ensures the family's output, and secondly, it motivates disciples to work harder to improve their pill refining rate.

On the other hand, it can also ensure that true alchemy geniuses can obtain a large amount of resources from the family through legitimate channels in the early stages by relying on a high success rate in alchemy.

This prevents people from taking risks and going astray due to insufficient resources, or from being buried because of insufficient resources.

"What, is there a problem with what I said?"

After Bai Jingming finished speaking in one breath, he noticed that the expressions of the others were a bit strange, so he frowned and asked.

Bai Xuangu coughed lightly and glanced at Bai Xuanjing.

Seeing Bai Xuanjing lost in thought and seemingly oblivious, he said, "Second Uncle, you may not know this..."

He then proceeded to recount the complicated relationship between Bai Xuanlin and Bai Xuanjing.

"Such a thing is true!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Jingming slammed his hand on the table.

"This Baek Hyun-rim is so wicked!"

"Fortunately, the Lu siblings were there, so Xuanjing wasn't hurt."

As he spoke, Bai Jingming sighed and said, "Speaking of which, many years ago, when Bai Xuanlin was still in the Alchemy Hall, he colluded with rogue cultivators from the marketplace to swindle the Alchemy Hall disciples out of their spirit stones..."

"Later, the matter came to the attention of Elder Zong and us deacons."

At the time, we discussed how to deal with this person. I was still soft-hearted, thinking that he was young, his character was still developing, and his talent for alchemy was quite good, so I sided with the view of forgiving him.

"In hindsight, it almost led to a major disaster!"

After saying that, he let out a long sigh.

"Looking back now, Uncle Qingbai's point of view is more correct. Compared to talent and diligence, cultivating character is more important for a family," Bai Jingming thought to himself, feeling a mix of emotions.

He didn't take it seriously when he was young, but now that he's older, he increasingly feels that some of the elders' views do have merit.

If a family's younger generation lacks talent, the worst that can happen is that the family declines.

But as long as the good fortune doesn't run out and the foundation remains, there is still a chance to make a comeback.

However, if the younger generation of a family goes astray, it often leads to the collapse of the family and even the crisis of extinction.

Upon learning that Bai Xuanlin had been sent to the punishment hall, Bai Jingming did not ask any further questions.

Anyone who violates clan rules and falls into the hands of the punishment hall will certainly not fare well.

"Speaking of which, our second branch elder, the head of the Alchemy Hall, Elder Bai Qingbai, summoned us stewards together a few days ago..." Bai Jingming continued.

Bai Xuanjing listened intently.

The term "elder" can be understood as an elder within each branch of a household, whose status is higher than that of the branch stewards.

The eldest elder of each branch often also serves as a family elder, holding a higher status, and their cultivation level is also Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Although Bai Qingbai's cultivation level was only at the late stage of Qi Refining, his alchemy skills were superb, making him one of the few second-tier alchemists in the Bai family.

Even the Foundation Establishment elders had to treat Bai Qingbai with utmost respect.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be any affordable and high-quality medicines to eat!

In addition, Bai Qingbai has been in charge of the alchemy hall for many years, and most of the current high-level alchemists in the Bai family are his students.

At least in terms of elixirs, the resources he can leverage are absolutely unimaginable.

Bai Qingbai was the head of the Alchemy Hall, so what he said was naturally related to alchemy, which made Bai Xuanjing a little curious.

I don't know if it's related to the No. 8 Fire Vein.